We are a women-led non-partisan pro-peace anti-imperialist and anti-war movement comprised of thousands of supporters from across the world who have had enough of the US war machine. Some of us have been lifelong activists, others woke up during the last presidential election. However we got here, we have one thing in common: We wholeheartedly believe that the US war machine must be stopped.

Executive Board of Directors

Cindy Sheehan

Co-Coordinator Executive Board

Cindy is the Gold Star Mother of Casey Sheehan, who was killed in Iraq on April 4th 2004. Cindy has been involved in the peace and social justice movement ever since. She is currently on the board of Directors of Women's March on the Pentagon and Producer/Host of Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox. In 2005, Cindy set up camp outside of President George W. Bush's Texas ranch, demanding a meeting with the president in hopes of receiving an explanation for her son's death. Cindy was also a vocal critic of President Barack Obama's foreign policy. Cindy lives near her surviving children and is the proud "Gigi" of her five grandchildren.

Emma Fiala

Webmaster, Executive Board

Emma is an activist, documentary photographer, mom of two, and independent journalist. She is on the board of Women Against Military Madness. Emma is an editorial assistant at MintPress News and a journalist and editor at The Mind Unleashed. Her articles have been featured on MintPress, the Anti-Media, Zero Hedge, the Mind Unleashed and Media Roots. She previously interned with Empire Files with Abby Martin, visited Standing Rock, and organized a grassroots rescue effort in Texas after Hurricane Harvey. Emma lives in Minnesota where she frequently participates in and photographs local protests and actions. She is MOP's webmaster and social media guru.

Board of Directors

Jessica Swim

F.U.R.I.E.

Jessica lives in Chicago where she organizes with local political group and Women's March on the Pentagon sponsor, Feminist Uprising to Resist Inequality and Exploitation (FURIE). Jessica is also a head editor and contributor to FURIE's literary journal, The PanWomanist.

Heather has taught real US history for 53 years as a Marxist, anti-imperialist, anti-war activist. A founder of the Woman’s Liberation Movement, she is also a grandmother.

Madelyn Hoffman

Madelyn was Executive Director of the Grass Roots Environmental Organization (GREO) from 1983-98 where she worked with grassroots citizen groups and communities in New Jersey to clean toxic chemical pollution and oppose new polluting facilities. From 2000-18, she was Executive Director of a now 61 year old grassroots peace organization, working to end and prevent war and to move money from the war budget into needed programs. Since June, Madelyn has worked with the Green Party of New Jersey on an agenda that combines work for a clean environment with work for peace.

Diane Moxley

Diane is an activist and a legal services attorney. As a member of the Green Party of New Jersey, she is in a state leadership capacity on the Green Council. She embraces the Green Party platform of people, planet, and peace over profit. Diane has been a legal services attorney for over 14 years. She has been involved in activism in New Jersey and across the country in everything from getting money out of politics, fighting pipelines and fossil fuels, advocating for healthcare for all, fighting for immigrants’ rights and economic justice, and fighting against racism, imperialism, the military industrial complex, and mass incarceration, and more.

Advistory Committee

Bruce Dixon

Black Agenda Report

Bruce was a rank-and-file member of the Black Panther Party in 1969-1970, a 1970s rank-and-file union activist in a string of factories, plants and workplaces, a 1980s community organizer in what were then some of the nation's poorest neighborhoods. Bruce is currently the Managing Editor at Black Agenda Report and is a member of the state committee of the Georgia Green Party.

Mnar is founder, CEO and editor in chief of MintPress News, and is also a regular speaker on responsible journalism, sexism, and neoconservativism within the media. Mnar spent time living in Palestine as a child. She began her career as an independent multimedia journalist covering Midwest and national politics while focusing on civil liberties and social justice issues. In 2009, Mnar became the first American woman to wear the hijab to anchor/report the news in American media.

Walter is an anti-war activist and retired psychotherapist. He is a veteran of 1967 March on Pentagon and served on the Board of the Vietnam Agent Orange Relief & Responsibility Campaign in 2012.

Ann Wright

Activist

Ann is an outspoken and active antiwar activist and a retired US State Department official and retired US Army. She has a law degree from the University of Arkansas and a master's in national security affairs from the US Naval War College. Ann is known for her opposition to the Iraq War and was one of three State Department officials to resign in protest of the 2003 invasion.

Don DeBar

CPR News

Don is a radio journalist and long time anti-imperialism activist based in New York. He joined his first antiwar protest in 1970 after the second of two cousins was killed in Vietnam. Don is the executive producer of the CPR News, a daily 30 minute radio newscast for Community Public Radio and is a frequent contributor to international media outlets including RT, Sputnik and PressTV.